FL NRCS Reminder about Sign-up Cutoff Dates

Randall Weiseman Cattle, Florida, General, Livestock, USDA-NRCS

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Florida wants to remind producers that this Friday, March 13th is the signup cutoff date for both EQIP and WHIP. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Citrus Crop Forecast Update for March 2009

Gary Cooper Citrus, Crop Forecasts, Florida

CLICK HERE to go to the March Citrus Crop Forecast update from USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service (USDA/NASS). In this report, Florida Agriculture Statistics Director Jeff Geuder reviews some of the highlights. USDA NASS Sponsoring this citrus crop forecast update: Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Stimulus Releases Floodplain Easement Funding

Randall Weiseman Alabama, USDA-NRCS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide up to $145 million to eligible landowners nationwide through the floodplain easement component of its Emergency Watershed Protection Program. Steve Musser, Assistant State Conservationist with Alabama NRCS encourages farmers who have had land flood for two out of the last ten years to sign up by the deadline of March 27. Sponsored ContentWhat …

First Wave of Stimulus Funding

Randall Weiseman General, USDA-NRCS

The first wave of USDA economic stimulus funding has been released including funding for a variety of recovery and reinvestment programs as Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack explains. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

New Categories Within EQIP

Randall Weiseman Alabama, USDA-NRCS

The 2008 Farm Bill brought some modifications to the popular Environmental Quality Incentive Program administered including the Limited Resource Farmer and the Small Scale Farmer. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Conservation Innovation Grants Deadline Extended

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Florida, USDA-NRCS

WASHINGTON– The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced the application period for 2009 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) funding has been extended to March 20th. The previous deadline to submit applications was March 2nd. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024

Just What Does “Sequencing the Citrus HLB Genome” Really Mean?

Gary Cooper Citrus, Florida

Regarding recent announcements that scientists have sequenced the genome for citrus HLB, some call it a major breakthrough, others say it’s a big step toward a breakthrough. In a rare five part series of reports, Ft. Pierce USDA Horticulture Lab Director Dr Calvin Arnold offers some down-home explanation of just what is going on here. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide …

New and Beginning Farmer

Randall Weiseman Alabama, USDA-NRCS

The 2008 Farm Bill brought some new additions to the Natural Resource and Conservation Service’s EQIP program as John Curtis, Resource Conservationist explains why. Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024